Escalation on the pitch: referee attack in D-youth game!

Escalation on the pitch: referee attack in D-youth game!

In an extremely unfortunate incident, a D-youth national league game between SG Dresden-Striesen and FC Erzgebirge Aue was canceled last weekend. With a score of 6: 1 for the hosts, 16-year-old referee Luca-Alexander Kaiver decided to end the match prematurely. The reason: a heated argument between the players and the coaches who culminated in an attack. The incident has beaten High waves in the region and highlights an increasing problem in amateur football.

The situation escalated when a Dresden player hit an Auer defender on the face as part of a duel. Then the Auer coaches stormed onto the field, insulted referees Kaiver and intentionally accused the Strieße player. The referee wanted to look after the injured player, but was stopped by the Auer coaches. When he finally wanted to show a red card against an Auer assistant coach, there was a physical assault when an Auer coach hit the card from Kaivers' hand, which ultimately led him to the termination decision. This tense atmosphere was reinforced after the game by aggressive statements by the Auer coaches compared to Kaivers. Image reports of the oppressive details of the incident.

crisis of the referees

The events in Dresden are not isolated. In other regions, too, attacks and threats to referees occur again and again. An example from Reutlingen shows that games had to be set there too because a referee was threatened with violence. A game in the district league A was canceled after a viewer threatened the referee, which led to the police had to intervene. GEA documents these questionable events.

Violence against referee is not a new problem. According to a report by the German Football Association, aggressive behavior and insults against referees are no longer uncommon. Volunteer referees are in short supply, despite the essential role that they play for the game. Often they are poorly remunerated, which further inhibits the influx of new referees. Most of the time it is young people who often do not get back and find themselves in rigid positions. The situation is alarming when you consider that many referees are confronted with negative experiences in their first years, such as the reports on insults and acute threats. Indeon impressively illuminates this problem.

After the incident, the head coach initially refused to name the names of the accused coaches, while the supervisors of Aue submitted a written apology. Despite the negative experiences, the Luca-Alexander Kaiver mentioned was determined to remain active as a referee. The discussion about the security and support of referees in amateur football is only more urgent by such incidents.